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Australian Curriculum Studies Association Inc.
Presentation: Maggie Garrard
Topics: The Animal within: Exploring the use of Digital Media resources in the classroom
Venue: Sydney Hilton, NSW
Website: http://www.acsa.edu.au

Summary: The Animal within: Exploring the use of Digital Media resources in the classroom The Animalia Teaching Resource developed by the Australian Children’s Television Foundation uses digital media from the TV animation series, to support primary teachers in exploring concepts and issues of Civic & Citizenship, Values and Identity. The TV series is based on the picture book, Animalia by Graeme Base. In this resource you will find more than 100 Teaching Activities and related Student Activity Sheets based on the e5 teaching framework; 12 episodes and 39 embedded clips related to the teaching activities that you can view; an interactive game for students to learn about leadership, relationships and problem solving. This workshop examines how KAHOOTZ 3.0 can link with ACTF resources such as Animalia to provide educators with a 3D digital animation program that can cater for children’s diverse contemporary learning needs, styles and paces, and also gives students an opportunity to create and express themselves with the use of a contemporary medium. Educators will be able to witness how this tool can assist in creating evidence based assessment in the areas of, Civics and Citizenship, Values, the Arts, English, thinking processes, authoring, critical analysis, and creative composition. The Australian Children’s Television Foundation (ACTF) is dedicated to improving student engagement through the use of new media and new communication technologies. This workshop will allow participants the opportunity to view case studies as examples to how the ACTF products help motivate, inspire and engage students with meaningful, authentic, creative and challenging learning experiences.